Dr Dr Ulrike Lange @Marburg University: Proviral Power Plays

By Prof Dr Eva Herker

As part of the rotating Infect-Net lecture series, PD Dr Dr Ulrike Lange from the Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) in Hamburg visited Prof Dr Eva Herker at the Institute of Virology in Marburg on 17 July 2025 to present her work at the institute’s seminar series.

In her lecture Ulrike Lange described exciting data on the impact of exogenous retroviruses like HIV as well as endogenous retroviruses on host cell genome activity. These findings might contribute to our understanding on long-term pathologies in people living with HIV that are on suppressive HIV therapy. Her talk stimulated intensive scientific discussions that continued after the seminar in a “meet the speaker” session with students and postdocs of the institute.

Lecture title: ‘Proviral power plays in HIV infection - rewiring host genome activity’